Scott McVay was founding executive director of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He was the 16th president of the Chautauqua Institution. He is fascinated by the songs of Nature and the songs of humanity.

The author notes: This poem, though written a dozen years ago, seems relevant to our times today and celebrates one of the Garden State’s great artists, George Segal, whose work, especially The Bread Line, redeems the memorial to FDR along the Potomac. (Not too long ago George’s widow Helen and daughter deeded his papers to the Princeton University Art Museum.)